| According to the tv, newspapers, media, politicians, and many people on this forum, Hizbollah started this war. Truth is that for the world to allow Israel to destroy Lebanon, Hizbollah must be cast as the villian and Israel must be cast as the victim. But it is never that clear cut.
How about the following, which states that Israel has in fact in the last 6 years violated the "blue line" that seperates Israel and Lebanon on an "almost daily basis." Last "February, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by unprovoked Israeli cross-border fire." "Israel has assassinated its enemies in the streets of Lebanese cities." etc.
In this context, what gives Israel the right to use the capture of two Israeli soldiers as the justification for the massive destuction of Lebanon. Why are Israel the victims, Lebanon the villians who's country needs to be destroyed?
full article: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0801/p09s02-coop.html
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Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon
By Anders Strindberg
08/01/06 "Christian Science Monitor" -- -- NEW YORK – As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism.
Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict.
Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has violated the United Nations-monitored "blue line" on an almost daily basis, according to UN reports. Hizbullah's military doctrine, articulated in the early 1990s, states that it will fire Katyusha rockets into Israel only in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians or Hizbullah's leadership; this indeed has been the pattern.
In the process of its violations, Israel has terrorized the general population, destroyed private property, and killed numerous civilians. This past February, for instance, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by unprovoked Israeli cross-border fire as he tended his flock in southern Lebanon. Israel has assassinated its enemies in the streets of Lebanese cities and continues to occupy Lebanon's Shebaa Farms area, while refusing to hand over the maps of mine fields that continue to kill and cripple civilians in southern Lebanon more than six years after the war supposedly ended. What peace did Hizbullah shatter? |
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